freight brokers

Will markets remain tight into the first quarter or soften right after Thanksgiving?

Truckstop.com CEO dives into Book It Now and how the company plans to reduce friction between brokers and carriers.

FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller joins the ‘On the Spot’ crew at FreightWaves Live in Chicago to deliver the weekly freight rates report.

McElroy wants to see a more efficient brokerage industry. He believes competition is promoting that.

With experience in both freight brokering and non-asset-based logistics, David Broering addresses the challenges facing the ever-changing trucking industry.

On October 29, Bloomberg published an article by Dina Bass, “The ‘Uber for Trucking’ Tries to Navigate Some Uber-Scale Problems.” That was followed by Craig Fuller’s article, Is winter coming […]

Leaf Logistics aims to give shippers, carriers, and brokers confidence in buying and selling contracts and protect against market fluctuations.

Bill Driegert discussed both the Canadian and Polish expansions.

Carrier411 monitors trucking companies to rate their safety and performance protecting brokers from unsafe carriers.

Gillihan plans to build a process-driven sales floor that can scale.

The visibility solution takes workload off the brokers and Smart Capacity lets them cover freight faster.

Kar believes a driver’s relationship with an OEM will no longer end after the sale of a truck. That relationship will continue over the lifespan of the vehicle with the introduction of in-cab service technologies.

Traditional freight brokerages are ramping up technological spending to keep pace with the industry.

Brokers’ gross margins will compress unless they get shippers on board.

McLeod built automated pricing for contract and spot and digital load matching products.

The seventh annual Games were the biggest yet.

CHRW grew net income by 6.3% but increasing earnings per share by 8% with buybacks.

Ben Thrower writes about nearshoring manufacturing, which has gone on for decades. He also writes about the potential for nearshoring services, a new opportunity for both U.S. and Latin American businesses.

Negligent hiring and vicarious liability lawsuits have been around, but there are emerging risks as well.

Capacity has returned to freight markets and spot rates are falling against “contract.”

Michigan State University and the FreightWaves Freight Intel Group have developed research on spot market freight. Read about that research here.

Capital Logistics is the newest member of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA). Read about the company, as well as BiTA’s efforts to develop blockchain standards for transportation and logistics.

In partnership with Carggo… small freight brokers now have a white-label solution for automated load matching.

Brokers said there are lingering trouble spots from Road Check week, but markets are already softening.

Michael Lewis wrote “Moneyball” about the tactics Billy Beane used to improve the Oakland A’s. Read Zach Strickland’s take on using moneyball tactics in the freight market.

Executives from Redwood Logistics, Forager Logistics, and Transplace discussed the risks posed by new tariffs on Mexican imports.

Freight brokerage in the United States is mostly made up of small companies that have trouble scaling their businesses beyond certain revenue thresholds due to unstructured processes, under-utilization of technology, […]

Market expert Charley Dehoney explores how freight brokers can stay relevant in a rapidly changing environment.

Making carriers more productive is good business for Arrive Logistics.

Market expert Brian Aoaeh writes about the impact of market disruption on the freight brokerage sector. Learn how Amazon, artificial intelligence, machine learning and other disruptors will change the business…

During the morning session at Transparency19 on May 6, Stifel investment banker John Larkin moderated a discussion about mergers and acquisitions between Renee Krug, CEO of GlobalTranz; Doug Waggoner, CEO […]

TriumphPay is shifting the power over invoice control back into the hands of carriers.

Amazon could build a zero-margin equivalent of C.H. Robinson inside the ‘shipping costs’ line on its P&L without anyone noticing.

Amazon could build a zero-margin equivalent of C.H. Robinson inside the ‘shipping costs’ line on its P&L without anyone noticing.

Cathy Morrow Roberson explains what makes Miami International Airport (MIA) special, and what the airport, airlines and air cargo companies are doing at that particular facility to facilitate cargo. Learn more about MIA in this article.

Wintrust’s working capital lines of credit leave brokerages with more control than equity raises and have lower cost-of-capital than factoring.

Better talent at a lower cost improves brokers’ cash flows.

Have a strategy that you believe in and don’t forget to price in volatility, Feig said.

The feature is intended to save carriers time and money that they would spend searching for and booking loads.

High-growth business models make sourcing talent even more difficult for freight brokerages.

Valuations will stay high and capital is readily accessible, bringing both sellers and buyers to market.

We checked in with executives from Edge Logistics, Avenger Logistics, and Convoy to see how brokers are handling YOY volume growth.

A healthy month-end volume uptick hasn’t tightened capacity, allowing brokers to stay in their happy place.

Small brokerages are confident they can grow quickly in a softening freight environment and trend-line GDP growth.

The boundary between spot and contract pricing is always shifting, especially when freight markets are volatile.

The largest Canadian freight brokerage purchased a 3PL concentrated in the Southeastern United States.

Convoy CEO Dan Lewis said that digital brokerage margins would expand until most participants adopted low-cost structure, then start compressing.

Today’s selloff on soft revenue growth guidance went too far, according to Stifel’s Bruce Chan and Susquehanna’s Bascome Majors.

In partnership with Arrive… high-tech freight brokerages are necessary links in the supply chain, but the key to their growth is how they select and coach their people.

Spot-heavy 3PLs are looking for freight while brokers with good contract relationships are getting rewarded.

The combined brokerage expects to do $200 million in revenue this year.

Forager is building a digital freight marketplace to automate elements of cross-border logistics.

Cowen expects softening trucking prices in 2019 to be a headwind for truckload carrier earnings, but should widen gross margins for freight brokerages.

On Tuesday afternoon, Arrive Logistics popped champagne as the freight brokerage officially opened its downtown Chattanooga office on Market Street. We spoke to Arrive executives about the company’s culture, growth story, and plans for Chattanooga.

In Partnership with Arrive Logistics… we talk freight market data with executives from Arrive Logistics and ask them how they’re preparing to handle surging volumes in Q4 and beyond.

Presented by Trucker Tools…

Not only are relentless spam emails from brokers or third-party logistics providers a nuisance: they’re actually illegal.

Hosted by FreightWaves, the August 9th McLeod Capacity Creator webinar featured a discussion between Robert Brothers, Manager of Product Development for McLeod Software and Brian Kelsey, Vice President of Operations for ZMac Transportation Solutions.

XPO Logistics is the latest transportation company to offer customers an online freight marketplace, bringing big investment and the company’s own ready-made list of shippers and carriers to fire back at the upstarts

For months, West Coast spot rates have been softening, allowing brokers to take big margins and shippers to move freight inexpensively, with short lead times. That’s about to change.

After several delays, Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) workers have begun installing truck toll gantries in the state this week. The project, which will collect truck-only tolls at 12 locations in the state, is estimated to raise about $470 million in tax revenue over 10 years.